As Andrew mentions in the post, even having a Twitter account was a source of stress. It's about more than just promoting his content.
It's a feeling I can sympathize with. In 2009 I deleted my Facebook account (or "deactivated" it, the only option at the time), and even though I wasn't using it much by then, it felt like a needless weight was suddenly lifted.
It might be rash if work had already started on it, but as with the other proposals on the issue tracker not labeled with "accepted", this is just a call for discussion and counter-proposals. At this point it's just the team collecting feedback, learning about affected use cases, and gauging feasibility -- opposite of rash, I'd say.
Gotta love goofy stunts that take effort to make! A spiritually similar programming language that also screams a lot is ArnoldC: https://lhartikk.github.io/ArnoldC/
In general Zig foregoes syntactic sugar and requires implementing higher-level APIs by composing primitives. But a new language feature is a candidate when it solves a use case that can't otherwise be solved, or opens up a path to more efficient code.
Loris' blog post points out that the new for loops address the latter:
> In the multi-sequence for loop version it’s only necessary to test once at the beginning of the loop that the two arrays have equal size, instead of having 2 assertions run every loop iteration. The multi-sequence for loop syntax helps convey intention more clearly to the compiler, which in turn lets it generate more efficient code.
It also builds on existing properties of slices/arrays, rather than adding a new "enumerate primitive".
The tension is understandable: Zig is explicitly not production-ready, yet it has such attractive performance and productivity properties, and has even proven useful in production scenarios (Bun, Uber, Tigerbeetle). But Andrew's suggestion is correctly aligned with Zig's mission and current level of maturity. If you have a complex project with lots of users like Jarred does, stick with a tagged release for now.
The highest priority of Zig pre-1.0 is to make the language the best it can be — which it will be in due time. The target audience of the master branch is those who can withstand churn and are focused on getting it there.
Same. My favorite geezer hacker/heist movie, Sneakers, drops a realistic San Francisco phone number (415 area code) near the end. I always wondered who would pick up if dialed...
Not mentioned in the talk, among the onslaught of media and merchandise following the success of the game was "Q*bert's Quazy Questions". It was one of my most treasured books as a kid because of the cute illustrations and heavy cardboard pages. The jokes are only superficially related to the game, of course.
It's a feeling I can sympathize with. In 2009 I deleted my Facebook account (or "deactivated" it, the only option at the time), and even though I wasn't using it much by then, it felt like a needless weight was suddenly lifted.